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DNS is killing me. I am an accountant.
I have a new out of the box mac mini server.
I want clients (real people with pcs and macs) to have external internet access to wiki, email and other nice services.
I do not want to serve DNS to the world; I just want to get past the installation configuration with a suitable DNS.
I am not at all clear whether I want Open Directory and from that whether I need DNS at all.
When this machine is set up it will be accessed only from outside on the public internet, including for admin matters by me; no "internal/local" users at all.
I do have a choice of domain names. I was trying papakilo.net and server as the machine name.
I can go in to change the papakilo.net domain records - though whether I can set up a reverse dns I am not clear.
I will buy a time machine if that is what it takes to have the firewall security managed by the server itself; I am assuming this would remove a level of expertise I do not want to acquire more than already.
I have spent many hours on here and in google, reading, watching videos etc looking for the answer to what to enter into "Primary DNS name"?
Where I am working right now has a dynamic IP but it doesn't change often and is fine for testing because I can keep checking what it is.
The final location will have (does have) a fixed ip address.
I bought Max Server many years ago, perhaps version one or two or whatever and had the same experience: within minutes I was unable to use the system.
So. The adverts said this was now easy. (I never learn).
If I knew what to type in to the DNS boxes and what to change on papakilo's domain DNS would I be further along?
I was looking forward to the joys of VPN set up and the like, not this.
Somewhat disappointedly as I had high hopes only to find extensive DNS reading is required to know what to type into the very first dialogue box.
Wonder if I should set up the canonical server.papakilo.net in the internet based DNS record so that the install routine can find it... is that the first problem?
And is the second problem to point the external i.p address back to the dynamic one in use at this location?
And will that facilitate the reverse lookup?
And will I have to wait for the propagation time to find out if this works -
or can I use actual i.p. addresses while I wait?
Some sympathetic help would be much appreciated please, and I promise I won't tell everyone how simple tax is.
Best wishes,
Anthony
Mac Mini Server, Mac OS X (10.6)